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International Antitrust, Nikiforos Iatrou, Brownwyn Roe, Paul Schoff, Katrina Groshinski, Maria Ceclia Andrade, Rafaela P. De Calcena, Eric White, Adam S. Goodman, Peter Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Laurie-Anne Grelier, Peter Camesasca, Aurdlien Condomines, Susanne Zuehlke, Vinod Dhall, Sonam Mathur, Tal Eyal-Boger, Ziv Schwartz, Gerardo Calderon-Villegas, Vassily Rudomino, Ksenia Tarkhova, Roman Vedernikov, Alla Azmukhanova, Heather Irvine, Lara Granville, Jonathan Tickner, Jasvinder Nakhwal, William F. Cavanaugh Jr., Robert P. Lobue, Dierdre A. Mcevoy, Daniel A. Friendman, Jake Walter-Warner

The Year in Review

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Export Controls And Economic Sanctions, John Boscariol, J. Patrick Briscoe, Geoffrey Goodale, Jahna Hartwig, Jonathan Meyer, Christopher Stagg, Lawrence Ward

The Year in Review

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Customs Law, Luis Arandia, Shane Devins, Vince Draa, Geoffrey Goodale, Patricio La Porta, Keith P. Larsen, Greg Kanargelidis, Daniel L. Kiselbach, Matt Nakachi, Ruta Riley, Marcos Rios, Rebecca Rodriguez, Neo T. Tran, George R. Tuttle Iii, Matias Vergara

The Year in Review

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Being Blonde In China And How To Protect My Right Of Publicity Abroad, Norvell, Lauren

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

Being Blonde in China and How to Protect My Right of Publicity Abroad

Sovereign Authority And Rule Of Law: The Effect Of U.S. Use Of Torture On Political Legitimacy, Sydney Bradley

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Governmental sovereignty is created and maintained by mutual respect for the rule of law by the government and citizens. To maintain legitimacy, a government must act within the bounds of the contract that created it. Otherwise, the relationship founded by said contract would be nullified, as would the duties and obligations that flow from that relationship. Torture exemplifies an ultra vires act used by the United States to show the consequences of over-extended authority on political legitimacy and the rule of law. Founded on the philosophies of Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, and Christine Korsgaard, this research investigates the nature of …

Guide On Incentives For Responsible Investment In Agriculture And Food Systems, Anna Bulman, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Ladan Mehranvar, Ella Merrill, Yannick Fiedler

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

To support implementation of the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS RAI), CCSI has developed resources for governments and other stakeholders in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

This work includes an online course on creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. The course is freely available, accessible online and available for download. Part I highlights the features and key players of an enabling environment that promotes responsible investment in agriculture and food security. Part II addresses multi-stakeholder engagement in the design of legal and …

Covid-19 And Land-Based Investment: Changing Landscapes, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye, Nathaniah Jacobs, Clarisse Marsac

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

CCSI, IIED, and Namati are partnering on a new initiative to support governments, civil society, local communities, and private sector actors in improving the governance and practices of land-based investments.

Recognizing that more and better private sector investment is widely seen as critical to advancing economic development and achieving the SDGs in low- and middle-income countries, this initiative responds to concerns that land-based investments have resulted in land dispossession, environmental degradation, and conflict.

The Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) project involves:

• Sustained, in-depth work in up to three countries, including Sierra Leone, to support policy development and implementation, legal …

Cruise Ship And Crime: How To Better Protect United States’ Citizens Who Are Victims Of Crime On The High Seas, Eda Harotounian

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Extending Trade Law Precedent, Jeffrey Kucik, Sergio Puig

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Precedent is celebrated as a fundamental feature of dense legal systems as it creates predictability, builds coherence, and enhances the authority of courts and tribunals. But, in international adjudication, precedent can also affect interstate cooperation and ultimately the legitimacy of international organizations. Wary of clashing with state interests, most international dispute settlement systems are designed so that rulings do not set obligatory precedent.

This Article describes the role of precedent in the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to explain how precedent can affect compliance with the decisions of international courts and tribunals (ICs). This Article makes …

European Union Law As Foreign Law, Lior Zemer, Sharon Pardo

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The importance and significance of comparative sources to the development of Israeli jurisprudence is expressed in local legislation and rulings. The impact of foreign law on the development of Israeli law has been analyzed and vindicated in numerous studies in the local legal literature. These studies typically focus on the two most prominent legal systems—-common law (the Anglo-American system) and civil law (the Continental system). The historical reasons for this are clear, emanating from the fact that Israel’s legal system is based on these legal regimes and is amended in the spirit of changes made to them. Over the years, …

Competing Claims: The Developing Role Of International Law And Unilateral Challenges To Maritime Claims In The South China Sea, Kevin Leddy

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Chinese military and economic expansion have led to a commensurate decrease in the ability of neighboring countries to object to excessive maritime claims in the South China Sea. The existing framework of international law under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea provides an anchoring point for coastal states' legal claims to the region, but it does not adequately address the complicated diplomacy challenges created by unilateral military action and unique geographical issues, such as artificial islands. Gradual acquiescence to maritime claims that do not comply with international law results from these conditions. Once these boundaries are …

Cross-Border Data Transfers Between The Eu And The U.S.: A Transatlantic Dispute, Jiménez-Gómez, Briseida Sofía

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

Cross-Border Data Transfers Between the EU

and the U.S.: A Transatlantic Dispute

Honor Crimes: A Question Of Honor, Culture, And Humanity, Nadia N. Almusleh

Master's Theses

Honor crimes, femicide, domestic abuse and violence are widely prevalent in patriarchal societies. Middle Eastern cultures deeply value protecting the chastity and honor of women. The traditional images of women and the notions of honor and shame are consistently used as justifications for violence and killings. This is not attributable to a single culture or religion. It is rather a manifestation of societal norms around gender-based violence. Feminist activism against honor crimes in the Middle East within the last decade has increasingly received social media attention. However, the impact of this social media activism on government intervention has yet to …

The Error Of The Paquete Habana: U.S. Naval Forces In The Safe Harbor Of Commander-In-Chief Discretion And The Law Of War, T. Nelson Collier

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract forthcoming.

Introduction To The Symposium On Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights, Gabriel Eckstein, James Salzman

Faculty Scholarship

Disagreements over the management and allocation of transboundary freshwater resources have become increasingly prominent in international relations. Serious diplomatic tensions surround management of the Jordan, Mekong, Nile, Rio Grande, Silala, Syr Darya and Amu Darya, and Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to name just the most prominent examples among the world’s more than three hundred shared watercourses. Nor is there any reason to think tensions will subside in the future. Whether disagreements over shared freshwater resources will continue to be resolved peacefully will depend, in part, on the viability, durability, and flexibility of international law to prevent and resolve such disputes. …

The Blue State: Unrwa's Transition From Relief To Development In Providing Education To Palestinian Refugees In Jordan, Alana Mitias

Honors Theses

Often referred to as the “Blue State”–due in part to its association with the United Nations’ trademark blue branding–the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has evolved since its creation in 1949 to become both a symbol of the Palestinian cause and an inimitable public service provider across its five areas of operation, especially in regards to education. In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan alone, the UNRWA education program educates more than 120,000 students in 169 schools with results comparable with, if not often superior to, Jordanian public schools.

The UNRWA regime …

Religious Neutrality, Laïcité And Colorblindness: A Comparative Analysis, Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez

Cardozo Law Review

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China, Xinjiang, And The Genocide Convention: The Fragility Of International Law, Lucy Kate Herron

Honors Theses

This paper examines China’s actions through the lens of the Genocide Convention to examine the whether the crimes of genocide are being committed against the Uyghur population. It contends that according to the Genocide Convention, China is committing genocide, and particularly through conditions, torture, and rape, against the Uyghur population. However, prosecuting a genocide in court would prove difficult due to China's laws and actions that can be used to defer accusations of genocide and problems with the Genocide Convention in the context of China and the Uyghurs.

International Law For Transboundary Aquifers: A Challenge For Our Times, Gabriel Eckstein

Faculty Scholarship

Quarrels between states sharing a transboundary aquifer (TBA) have been relatively minor in comparison with the more boisterous disputes seen in many of the world's shared river basins. Yet, transboundary groundwater can easily serve as the basis for cross-border disagreements. Twice as many TBAs and shared groundwater bodies have been identified globally as compared to transboundary rivers and lakes, and the volume of accessible groundwater exceeds all surface waters by a factor of one hundred. Yet, the number of treaties in force for TBAs is miniscule in comparison with those for transboundary rivers and lakes. Moreover, dozens of nations exploit …

When Drills And Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands In The Americas, Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez

Faculty Scholarship

From the Missouri River, passing through the Sonora Desert, all the way down to the Amazon Forest and the Andean Mountains, drills and pipelines are crossing over indigenous lands. In an energy-thirsty continent, there is no land left to spare, not even tribal land. Many of these energy infrastructure projects involve international investments that are protected by treaties and enforced by arbitral tribunals. At the same time, tribal communities have an internationally recognized right to receive prior and informed consultation before they are affected by projects of this nature. The Article focuses on the clash of rights between energy extraction …

The Human Rights And Developmental Dimension Of Investment Laws: From Investment Laws With Human Rights To Development-Oriented Investment Laws, Ilias Bantekas

Florida Journal of International Law

Domestic investment laws are classified in this Article as strong, moderate, and weak in terms of their relevance for the protection of human rights and the promotion of developmental goals. This Article suggests that if human rights and development are to find a stable place in the global investment architecture, a radical departure from the current Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) regime is required. It is suggested that BITs be replaced with domestic investment laws that contain precise developmental objectives for the host (developing) States. Each prospective investor, in consultation with the host state, will undertake a Development Impact Assessment …

Autonomous Weapon System And Command Responsibility, Vivek Sehrawat

Florida Journal of International Law

Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) are gradually becoming incorporated into warfare as technology advances and capabilities increase. The challenge of ensuring the responsibility for acts of an AWS poses some significant challenges. Under International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and international criminal law, individuals are criminally responsible for any war crimes they commit. It is unclear who can be held responsible for deaths and war crimes committed by AWS. This Article is focused on human-out-of-the loop weapons. This Article outlines the legal theory of command responsibility, which international criminal courts may apply to achieve responsibility. This Article examines the individual and state responsibility, …

Rights Litigation Piggybacking: Legal Mobilization Strategies In Lgbtiq International Human Rights Jurisprudence, Lucas Lixinski

Florida Journal of International Law

The article examines the LGBTIQ movement’s engagement with international human rights adjudication from the perspective of its borrowing from or piggybacking on the strategies and tactics of other international social movements for historically disadvantaged groups, particularly race, gender, and Indigenous peoples. Piggybacking has shaped the rights goals of the LGBTIQ movement, which are then translated into the language of international human rights law. In this translation process, certain objectives get foregrounded at the expense of others, and the movement essentializes itself in the pursuit of strategic gains, often to lasting unintended consequences that harm the movement itself. In mapping these …

The Admissibility Of Earth Observation Data In Legal Proceedings: A Closer Look Towards Data Imaging, Alif Nurfakhri Muhammad

Indonesia Law Review

Space capabilities utilization, specifically Earth observation capabilities is not just limited to environmental protection and disaster mitigation, as was shown in the UN Principles on Remote Sensing. It can also be used to support law enforcement and legal proceedings in court. However, the technology of Earth observation is very complex and the process from primary earth observation data to analyzed information requires a degree of manipulation to create comprehensive data. Because of this, there is an issue of admissibility of Earth observation data in court. This article would like to answer the fundamental question on how can this data be …

Ineffective Refugee Status Determination Process: Hindrance To Durable Solution For Refugees Rights And Protection, Rohaida Nordin, Norilyani Hj Md Nor, Rosmainie Rofiee

Indonesia Law Review

In any State of Asylum, the process of Refugee Status Determination (RSD) conducted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is critical in facilitating asylumseekers to seek necessary protections. UNHCR ensures that asylum-seekers will not be returned involuntarily to the State of Origin where they could face persecution. As a long-term solution, UNHCR helps refugees to find appropriate and permanent solutions to their plights, either by repatriating them voluntarily to their homeland or assisting them to integrate into the States of Asylum or helping them to resettle in third States. In the absence of domestic legal protection in …

The Protection Of Traditional Knowledge Under Indonesian Patent Law: Between Opportunities And Challenges, Yulia Yulia

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The protection of traditional knowledge through patents is still an interesting issue on an international level. Indonesia revised Patent Law in 2016 (Law Number 13 of 2016 concerning Patent or Indonesian Patent Law). This Law has confirmed that patent is an exclusive right that the country gives for the inventor to the invention in technology, for a certain amount of time, to implement itself or give other parties to implement it. The patent can be submitted if required terms of the patent application, there are novelty, inventive steps, and industrially applicable. That provision cannot be fulfilled by traditional knowledge, where …

The Protection Of Three-Dimensional Works As A Means Of Promoting Innovation: A Comparative Basis Of Namibia And Burkina Faso, Habraham Sonda, Frieda Shifotoka

Indonesian Journal of International Law

For years intellectual property (IP) has been an area that has been neglected in its protection and promotion in comparison to other types of the property despite its uniqueness. There is more neglect in industrial designs, specifically from innovators from developing countries, because of the lack of assistance to innovators or government prioritizing areas concerned with the public interest. IP does not only benefit its creators. However, it has contributed to the economies of many countries. Hence the need to have effective legal systems that recognize IP and have remedies and enforcement mechanisms. When there are mechanisms in place for …

Traditional Knowledge – The Changing Scenario In India, Ajoy Jose, Padmavati Manchikanti

Indonesian Journal of International Law

India is a party to the CBD, which came into force on 29 December 1993. It has three main objectives, namely the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. CBD envisages that the benefits accruing from commercial use of TK have to be shared with the people responsible for creating, refining and using this knowledge. Art 8(j) of the CBD provides for respecting, protecting and rewarding the Knowledge, Innovations and Practices (KIP) of local communities. Realizing the need to ensure that the …

The Protection Of Celebrity Name In China: After The ‘乔丹’ Case By The Spc Of China, Huaiyin Zhang

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) case of ‘乔丹’, brought by Michael Jordan against Qiaodan Sports, is a landmark case over the protection of the right to the personal name in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In the retrial proceeding, the SPC gave eight exhaustive explanations to the disputed questions and eventually reversed the lower court’s decision. After studying the judgment, this article finds that a famous foreign name can be protected by Chinese Trademark law only when it satisfies three conditions: First, the specified name enjoys a certain popularity in China and is well-known to the concerned public; second, …

Swing The Angklung Tube In The Digital Economy Era: Based On Intangible Cultural Heritage And Intellectual Property Rights Perspective, Laina Rafianti, Aam Suryamah, Afrizal Musdah Eka Putra, Ahmad M. Ramli

Indonesian Journal of International Law

After the UNESCO inscription of Angklung as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2010, the responsibility of the angklung custodian is harder. Angklung is not only must exist as a living culture but must also develop. At first, the inscription of angklung is essential to ascertain cultural identity from Indonesia. Besides, intellectual property law contributes a vital key to protect the community and individuals who create copyrighted subject matter based on angklung. Double protection for angklung in cultural and intellectual property also provides double consequences. The problem is, the relation between those two related institutions is weak. Moreover, the mechanism of protection …